26 April 2012 17h00
IMM studio A 2.24
Kai Blankenberg on Mastering
In his lecture Kai Blankenberg will present the possibilities, the necessities and also the limits of mastering:
- - What is required of mastering?
- - What can and must the mastering process deliver?
- - How to fight right in the loudness war?
- - Where does mastering start and mixing stop?
- - Who is mastering done for and what is mastered? MP3 vs. vinyl or mobile loudspeakers vs. club.
Kai Blankenberg has worked in recording studios for 20 years and for the last 12 years has been focussing on mastering. He has mastered albums for artists such as Silbermond, Sportfreunde Stiller, Beatsteaks, Guano Apes, Juli, BAP, Kim Wilde, Konstantin Wecker and Revolverheld.
Since 2004, he has been the owner of the well-known Skyline Tonfabrik.
24 Mai 2012 17h00
IMM studio A 2.24
Felix Ensslin on Freedom and Aesthetics
The relationship between Lacan and Kant has often been analysed in the context of moral philosophy, and rightly so: Kant avec Sade. Another attempt is made here: to think about this connection on the basis of aesthetics. Kant's reflective judgement as the judgement that first seeks its law and that does not subsume the phenomena that we are confronted with under laws that have already been conceived, has often been taken as the starting point for modern reflections on the connection between aesthetics and politics. Our meeting with another is expressed by this, since a reflective (or more specifically: an aesthetic) judgement can only start from the subject matter. However, it also expresses our freedom, since the pleasure that is specific to the aesthetic indicates indefiniteness and thus freedom. Despite the criticism of the transcendental prevailing since Schiller and Hegel, there have been repeated attempts to keep this legacy of aesthetic freedom manageable for the orientation of the present. This is also essential if the subject of aesthetics – the construction of perception and therefore determination of art – is not to lose its connection to the ordinary. The lecture will examine whether, indirectly, Lacan's psychoanalysis can think productively this paradox of criticising transcendentalism while at the same time maintaining the connection to the ordinary, using aesthetic judgement.
Prof. Dr. Felix Ensslin holds the chair for aesthetics and art education at the Academy of Visual Arts, Stuttgart. He has implemented numerous exhibitions and theatre projects and is co-editor of the Subjektile series at Diaphanes Verlag and founding member of the pli-Psychoanalyse nach Lacan group in Munich, Hamburg, Paris and Stuttgart. He has published numerous contributions on subject theory and philosophy, on aesthetics and on contemporary art.
28 Juni 2012 17h00
IMM studio A 2.24
Matias Aguayo on Cómeme
The record label Cómeme evolved several years ago from the connection between several musicians and DJs resident in South America, who jointly organised street parties in cities such as Buenos Aires or Santiago de Chile and wanted to make the resulting music available to a wider public via the Internet. The label now releases on vinyl, goes on tour with its artists, has established close links with the Cologne music scene and that of other locations in Europe and has established itself as a platform for contemporary dance music that primarily comes from the southern hemisphere.
The label co-founder Matias Aguayo will talk about the formation of the label, its experiences, difficulties and how these difficulties were resolved.
Matias Aguayo, born in Santiago de Chile and grown up in Germany, is a singer, music producer and DJ. As a child of the Cologne electronic scene he began to release his own music in the late 1990s, including several albums and numerous EPs with the labels Kompakt (Cologne) and Souljazz (London). His life has taken him all across Latin America; his tours have taken him all around the globe. At present, he is making a temporary stop in Berlin.